LETTER TO MY FRIEND IN KIKONI,THE 60% TUITION POLICY IS DISCRIMINATIVE

Dear Bamugunki,

In line with the College of Engineering,Design,Art and Technology's college registrar’s letter dated 24^th September 2012 in which he stated that all private sponsored students in the college where to complete payments of 60% of their tuition before the end of this month that is September for them to be eligible to undertake tests and continuous assessment tests,I find the greatest compelling force to write to your my dear friend.

With great disappointment i clutch my pen between by sweaty fingers and i pull out my old Budget book that contains Dr.Bennie Mangeni's ICT summaries and search through until i find some empty pages to vent my frustration on,The private students fraternity in the college condemns in unequivocal terms the discrimination exhibited at this award winning college of the great Makerere University considering the fact that students at other colleges namely CoBAMS ,Health sciences etc continue to write their tests and continuous assessment without any whims.

The majority of the students in the university are privately sponsored students who rely on their parents and relations for tuition to pursue their studies, this move will be a pain in the neck of the students because this is a time when many parents are struggling to keep up with soaring prices in a pretty doggy economy.

The guild president in his earlier communications to the student body stated that the new vice chancellor professor Ddumba Ssentamu had okayed the idea of putting the 60% tuition policy on hold for this semester as it was found out that the policy was enacted in 2005 not last year contrary to popular belief. Makerere University has time immemorial offered its students a great chance to exercise their freedoms and liberties and it is in this regard that we find it necessary to clench our fists in great opposition towards this callous discrimination therefore we do hope the college conducts itself in complete harmony with the rest of the university because it is not an autonomous institution from Makerere University.

The news that the Chancellor had appointed an understanding senile Professor to preside over the Makerere populance was like a sigh of relief to me, I hurriedly kept my ears open for as long as i had the news anchor at K-fm read that 'Dumba was the new Baryamureba' but this time around iam beginning to regret why instead of solve physics puzzles I was eagerly waiting to hear that news. Friend with the changing tides, I am afraid the university will come out tough next term though and hit us perennial late payers like a hungry villager smash a mosquito feeding on his skinny flesh.